Excellent Raketa-Soyuz soviet mechanical watch – relic of soviet space exploration era!

Description RAKETA mechanical watch MADE IN USSR!   Manufactured on Petrodvortsovsky watch factory, USSR   The trade mark ‘RAKETA’ is on the dial.   The watch is mechanical and does not need batteries to operate.   Original soviet “RAKETA” has mechanical lever movement and manual winding.   YEARS 1980s CASE SIZE 38.5x39mm (with crown) THICKNESS 11mm LUG WIDTH 18mm TYPE  Mechanical MOVEMENT 2609.HП FUNCTIONS Hours, Minutes, Seconds   Watch been through a recent service by a professional watch tech and keeps good time.   Comes complete with new Nagata leather strap This watch ships from ����Ukraine with tracking number Soyuz (Russian: Союз, meaning “union” is a family of expendable Russian and Soviet carrier rockets developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara, Russia. The Soyuz is the rocket with the most launches in the history of spaceflight. For nearly a decade, between the final flight of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 and the 2020 first crewed mission of SpaceX‘s Falcon 9 rocket, Soyuz rockets were the only launch vehicles able and approved for transporting astronauts to the International Space Station. The Soyuz vehicles are used as the launcher for the crewed Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz programme, as well as to launch uncrewed Progress supply spacecraft to the International Space Station and for commercial launches marketed and operated by Starsem and Arianespace. All Soyuz rockets use RP-1 and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellant, with the exception of the Soyuz-U2, which used Syntin, a variant of RP-1, with LOX. The Soyuz family is a subset of the R-7 family. more on wikipedia Modes of payment: PayPal Credit Cards (VISA, MasterCard, American Express, Discover)   We guarantee the item you receive looks and works exactly as advertised — or your money back. About the watch factory The Petrodvorets Watch Factory «Raketa» was founded by Peter the Great in 1721. Factory was producing wide range of items, including jewels for watches since 1930. Factory was devastated during World War 2, restored in 1949 and was making “Pobeda”(Victory) and “Zvezda” watches. In 1954 renamed into Petrodvorets Watch Factory. Since 1962 “Raketa” watches are produced which became the trade mark of the factory. The Petrodvorets Watch Factory is one of the rare watch factories in the world that fully manufactures its own movements from A to Z, including hairspring and escapement. Other band names produced on the factory include Baltika, Leningrad, Mayak, Neva, Pobeda, Raketa, Rossiya, Svet, Start. Read more about on of few surviving soviet watch factories on factory’s website.